Shopping Content Coordinator - VICE.com

Job Description

About VICE.com

VICE.com is a global leader in producing and distributing groundbreaking news, culture, and service journalism. With a finger on the pulse of current events, trends, and social issues, VICE.com is the go-to source for insightful, entertaining, and useful editorial. We are looking for an organized, digitally savvy Shopping Content Coordinator to join our via VICE team and help power VICE’s growing shopping operation.

Role Overview

VICE is hiring a highly organized, savvy, go-getter Shopping Content Coordinator to help keep our commerce operation moving. This is a hands-on operational role for someone who is well-versed in social media, shopping trends, and the behind-the-scenes work on an editorial team.

You’ll work closely with VICE’s shopping editors and writers crafting story ideas and assignments, producing stories, creating and QAing affiliate links, coordinating product samples, supporting paid social campaigns, and managing sponsored content opportunities through Linkby and other platforms. 

We’re looking for someone who is detail-oriented, comfortable juggling a lot of moving pieces, and eager to learn. You might currently be a marketing assistant, production coordinator, or social manager. And if you have experience in affiliate commerce, branded content, or paid marketing, even better!

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day production on VICE shopping content.
• Manage Linkby operations for the shopping team, including monitoring available campaigns, identifying relevant opportunities, and claiming campaigns that fit VICE’s editorial coverage.
• Keep the Linkby platform updated with live URLs, campaign information, deliverables, and other required details to ensure campaigns and revenue across various Savage Ventures brands are properly tracked.
• QA and update stories in our CMS, ensuring shopping links and formatting are accurate and ready for publication and tracking.
• Check product pricing, availability, retailers, and other shopping information to keep stories accurate and useful.
• Assist with paid social media campaigns (on Meta and X primarily), including preparing content for promotion, coordinating creative assets, tracking campaigns, and helping monitor performance.
• Help source product images, brand assets, pricing information, and other materials needed for commerce stories.
• Coordinate product samples with brands and PR teams, including requesting products, tracking shipments, and getting samples into the hands of writers and editors.
• Occasionally test and evaluate products and contribute feedback, notes, or short-form reviews to VICE shopping stories.
• Support major shopping moments including Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, holiday shopping, and other seasonal sales events.
• Keep an eye on shopping trends, viral products, deals, and internet culture, and flag opportunities to the editorial team.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in digital media, digital publishing, social marketing, e-commerce, or a related field
• Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced digital environment and managing multiple projects and deadlines at once
• Familiarity with digital publishing workflows and content management systems; WordPress experience is a plus
• Experience with paid social, social media marketing, or digital advertising 
• An interest in shopping, consumer products, internet culture, and the way people discover and buy things online
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, tracking documents, and basic performance data
• Comfortable communicating with brands and PR representatives and coordinating product samples
• Reliable, proactive, and willing to jump in wherever needed to help the team get things done
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, or Marketing

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with Linkby, affiliate platforms, sponsored-content marketplaces, or commerce tracking tools (like Trackonomics, Skimlinks, Amazon Associates, or Impact)
• Comfortable working with revenue and campaign tracking, including maintaining accurate campaign records, URLs, deliverables, and performance information
• Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with links, campaign requirements, tracking, and revenue attribution

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to build a career in digital publishing and get hands-on experience at the intersection of editorial, affiliate commerce, audience development, and social marketing. This is a contract role, working 7-8 hour days from Monday to Friday.